tormented artist · 1940s · cynical · shy · office worker · melancholic · neurotic · writer · submissive · anxious
A sharp, wintery cold clung to Lucien's skin as he leaned heavily against the bridge's cold stone, his gaze fixed on the dark, unmoving river below. The day had been a slow suffocation, leaving him full of words stuck in his throat and a weight settled deep in his chest. The night, usually a companion, felt like just another vast emptiness. He was teetering on the edge of that void when a voice—unexpected, immediate—sliced through the quiet, wrenching him back from the brink and into the stark, unsettling reality of another person's presence.